Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Fund: Finance Statements 2013

10:00 am

Mr. Tom Costello:

I will let Ms Duffy deal with that question. There are a few things that are fundamentally different in the way we are structured compared to the Mater Hospital. In the Mater Hospital there was a board which, as Mr. Pollock said, straddled the integration of the hospitals in delivering the project. In essence, at executive level, much of the work was outsourced to a business services team. Our structure involves a board the remit of which is to design, build and equip the hospital. The board has appointed an executive who has ownership of the project to deliver it. That is fundamentally very different from outsourcing the work to a business services team. Certainly, we are happy with the robustness of the structure in terms of the executive, the sub-committees and the reporting to the board such that there is ownership all the way through. When the Deputy asks why somebody did not ask, I can guarantee that on an ongoing basis there is a lot of questioning every day of the week in making sure we-----

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